Land Rover Range Rover News
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The Range Rover PHEV will also be one of the few vehicles in this format to offer DC fast-charging.
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Electric Jaguar XJ flagship to compete with Tesla Model S
Jaguar's next XJ luxury sedan will debut as an electric car and will be the first model built on a new modular platform. Gasoline versions will follow.
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2019 Land Rover releases pricing for Range Rover P400e plug-in hybrid
By 2024, Land Rover will have a whole new lineup of hybrid and electric luxury SUVs. As we learned yesterday, that lineup will include plug-in hybrid and electric versions of its small Evoque crossover SUV. Now the company has released pricing for its largest, most luxurious plug-in hybrid, the...
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2019 Land Rover Range Rover P400e plug-in hybrid SUV: first drive review
No doubt the hoi polloi are prepared for emissions-free vehicle zones, what with their bicycles and their little electric cars. But what is the aristocracy to do when its high-end luxury SUVs are banned from city streets in central London? Enter the 2019 Land Rover Range Rover P400e plug-in hybrid...
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2019 Land Rover Range Rover P400e plug-in hybrid revealed, on sale in US next year
Following the debut of the smaller Land Rover Range Rover Sport P400e plug-in hybrid, the luxury SUV maker revealed its larger sibling: the 2019 Land Rover Range Rover P400e. The Land Rover Range Rover P400e plug-in hybrid is the larger of the two, but the SUV boasts an identical electrified...
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Does Range Rover Velar preview Jaguar I-Pace electric-car dash?
Carmakers often use the same components across vehicles from multiple brands. It's a way to keep costs down by not having to engineer or procure completely different parts for each model. So could some new components in a new vehicle offer a peek at a future model well before it goes into...
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Land Rover prices its two new diesel models.
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Range Rover Launches Two Diesel Models At Detroit Auto Show; Jaguar F-Pace Named
Tonight, Jaguar Land Rover unveiled its first diesel-powered models to be sold in North America, joining the three German luxury brands in adding more fuel-efficient diesel engine options to its largest, heaviest sport-utility vehicles. The diesel will be offered as an option this fall on two...
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Range Rover All-Electric Utility Vehicle To Challenge Tesla Model X?
Well, add one more name to the queue of luxury carmakers planning to compete head-to-head with Tesla Motors and its electric cars. According to Britain's Autocar, Range Rover is now in the planning stages for a crossover vehicle that could target the upcoming Tesla Model X electric SUV. DON'T MISS...
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2014 Range Rover Hybrid: Drive Reports Emerge For Diesel-Electric SUV U.S. Won't Get
Land Rover hasn't exactly cultivated a reputation for environmental friendliness over its history. While its products have always been adept at forging through the wilderness, it could be argued that its engines, rather than its tires, have done the most damage to the natural world. Still...
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2014 Range Rover Hybrid, Range Rover Sport Hybrid Revealed
Land Rover has announced full details of its two new hybrid Range Rover models, due to hit the streets in 2014. The Range Rover Hybrid and Range Rover Sport Hybrid are the first official hybrid models that Range Rover has sold, both based on the company's new aluminum 'Premium Lightweight...
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Land Rover Diesel Hybrids Could Reach U.S. In 2014: Report
We're often asked why more automakers don't sell diesel-electric hybrid vehicles. There are plenty of good reasons why, but that doesn't stop people wanting the twin-pronged benefits of highway and city economy. SUV buyers could get their wish if Land Rover brings diesel-electric hybrids to the...
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Range Rover isn't the first brand that comes to mind when thinking of green vehicles. Cars for traversing green and pleasant lands, perhaps, but not saving fuel as they do so. However, the company is changing. First there was the smaller, lighter Evoque, then plug-in hybrid prototypes. Next on the list are hybrid versions of both the new Range Rover and Range Rover Sport, expected to debut at this September's Frankfurt Auto Show in Germany. According to carsales.com.au, the diesel hybrids will join the more potent V-8 diesel models at the vast German show. The new hybrids will use a V-6...
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ZF Develops 9-Speed Auto Transmission For Improved Efficiency
You probably started driving in a car with three, four, maybe five speeds to choose between. Manual transmissions led the way for a while with gears--five and six became commonplace, while the average auto might only have had four gears. Since then, an increasing quest for efficiency has seen that...
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How Cars Can Get Better Gas Mileage, Invisibly: Lower Weight
There's a lot of focus--perhaps too much--on carmakers using smaller engines, hybrids, and plug-in cars to meet increasingly higher gas-mileage standards from now through 2025. But another, equally important method is reducing the amount of car that has to be moved around in the first place. That...
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2013 Range Rover Spy Shots, Will Have Hybrid, Plug-in Version
Jaguar Land Rover like every other automaker in the world, is working hard to make its range of luxury cars greener and more economical to drive. We've already seen some evidence of that, thanks to the Range Rover Range_e prototype plug-in diesel hybrid we spotted in the wild last year and...
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2011 Liberty E-Range Electric SUV. What do You Want to Know?
While you probably remember the great success and untimely demise of Toyota’s previous all-electric RAV4 EV, larger, pure electric SUV haven’t yet been attempted by major automakers. But a transatlantic firm called Liberty has been working on changing that with an electric vehicle based...
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Range Rover Decides Hybrids Make Most Sense For Gas Guzzlers
The 2012 Range Rover Evoque--the stylish new baby "soft-roader" that's Land Rover's smallest-ever luxury vehicle--will not be offered with a hybrid-electric version to improve its gas mileage. That's the word from John Edwards, Land Rover's global brand director, who noted that in Europe, the...
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Land Rover, a name synonymous with fully capable off-road vehicles, is scheduled to release its first hybrid vehicle in 2011. The hybrid, based on the LRX concept shown at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, will make its official debut on June 17th of next year with production beginning in early 2011. According to Autocar UK, the LRX Hybrid is based on the underpinnings of the companies Freelander, know as the LR2 in the U.S. It will likely feature a transverse engine that will power the front wheels with a unique system powering the rear wheels. The rear wheels will be powered by Land Rover...
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UK Gives Land Rover $37 Million
What does an iconic SUV maker need to survive the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? $37 million according to the U.K. government. That's how much Land Rover will receive to develop a 'green' SUV. With sales down 22% last month in the U.K., the government is standing behind it's car...
Robert Scardino